FIN425 – Course Project Policies & Template
Project Policies:
- Deadline:
- Course project is due on the last day of class: by 5pm on 04/28/2022, (Thursday).
- To motivate you to act sooner, rather than accumulating things till the end of semester (when you will have final exams, projects, other assignments due for all classes), I decide to:
- give you 5 extra credit points if you turn in your project early, that is, by 5pm on 04/12/2022 (Tuesday).
- Project report
- Each student must turn in his or her own
- An independent written course project is required for FIN425 by the college course curriculum. Each student must work through the entire project independently and submit his or her own course project report in order to get a grade for this course.
- Students may discuss project work with classmate(s) in a small study group, but copying each other’s project report (either entirely or by part) is strictly prohibited and can result in a zero in the course project for all students that are involved. In grading your project, we will be looking for your own analyses and computational work.
- Please see the last two pages for a template for the project title page and report pages. Please follow the template.
- Project submission
- You should submit your project on Canvas under
\Assignments\Course project
| For submission, please select ‘Start Assignment’. From here, upload your finished project (word document), please do not submit via ‘Office 365’ or ‘Webcam’. If you attempt to take a picture of your assignment, it will not be graded. You will only have One attempt to submit your complete project (& supplement file if any) by the above deadline. Once you upload your project report to Canvas, you cannot re-upload or edit it. So please double check your project report before you submit it. |
- NO extension will be given.
If we do not receive your individual project report on Canvas (with your name and ID on it) by the final deadline specified above, you will receive a zero on the course project.
You are responsible for submitting a readable version of the project report in a word document format by the deadline. Submitting a corrupted or unreadable file will result in a zero score of the course project.
Project Template
For the title page, you must follow the template exactly and fill in all the information required.
For the report pages, you can use this template as a guideline for your write-up. You may not follow the order exactly as long as your report contains all the major elements specified here.
Title Page
FIN 425 – Course Project
Title of the Project
I, Your name (First, Last), Student ID, worked on this project independently and am now submitting the following project report.
This report has a total of _________pages.
I also provide additional supporting materials [1]:
- No
- Yes, please list below:
e.g., regressions, or computations, or data (in excel, or word files)
Report Pages
You should aim to provide a well-written and presentable report to your client or your company. On top of your financial analysis, you should make your arguments and writing intuitive, coherent, and compelling. Your report will be graded for technical contents, reasoning, writing, and appropriate presentation.
Introduction
– Summarize the basic information about the company and the corporate finance question(s) the company faces in this case.
– Summarize your analyses – basic approaches used, main findings, conclusions, etc.
Detailed Analyses
Sample Question 1 (technical questions)
– Summarize the question and steps/plans of your technical analysis
– Insert table(s)/Figure(s) here
– Explain your number(s) and findings
Sample Question 2 (conceptual questions)
– Summarize the question and give your opinions
– Support your opinions with theories learned, evidence/information gathered, proper reasoning
– Conclude from your analyses and make your arguments clear and intuitive.
Conclusions
You can choose to conclude briefly, or skip this part if you think you have made everything clear in the previous parts.
[1] Additional supporting materials are not required. The project report itself should be self-explanatory.
